Political Quotes

“yesterday evening, I called my friend from Searchlight, NV, Arthur Fraijo. Arthur's family has been in Searchlight for many years. His mom and dad have passed away. I keep in touch with him. He is a wonderful, hard-working man. I said, ``Where are you today, Arthur?'' He said, ``I am at work.'' I said, ``You're kidding, where are you?'' He was at this project out by Primm, a big solar project. I said, ``How long have you been working?'' I remember that he said it was a matter of weeks. It is the first job he has had in 3 years. He is an iron worker and he is working now, and he is very happy. Here is an iron worker, a construction worker, who has finally found a job. In Nevada we have thousands of other people who have been out of work for a long period of time--construction workers such as Arthur. Most are not fortunate enough to have a job such as he has. That is what our legislation is all about. The legislation we will vote on this afternoon deals with putting people back to work, hundreds of thousands of construction workers. This is a bill that does not add more deficit spending. It is paid for, and it is not an attack on millionaires and billionaires. Many millionaires and billionaires are very fortunate in that they may not, in a given year, make a million dollars but they still have assets, so they are millionaires and billionaires. We have made sure that a small percentage of Americans would help us put people such as Arthur back to work.…”